"The Old Man and the Sea (1999 film) The Old Man and the Sea () is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Work on the film took place in Montreal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Russian, Canadian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently. The film follows the plot of the original novel,"
"to have happened."" Paul Smith, author of ""Hemingway's Early Manuscript: The Theory and Practice of Omission"", believes Hemingway applied the theory of omission in effort to ""strengthen [the] iceberg"". In October 1954 Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He jokingly told the press he believed Carl Sandburg and Isak Dinesen deserved the prize more than he, but that the prize money would be welcome. The prize was awarded to Hemingway ""for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in ""The Old Man and the Sea"", and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."""
"truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame."" ""The Sun Also Rises"" is written in the spare, tight prose that made Hemingway famous, and, according to James Nagel, ""changed the nature of American writing."" In 1954, when Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was for ""his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in ""The Old Man and the Sea"", and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."" Henry Louis Gates believes Hemingway's style was fundamentally shaped ""in reaction to [his] experience"
"finalists. Unless otherwise noted, the year represents the year the award was given for books published in the prior year. Thus, the award year 1950 is for books published in 1949. 1950: Nelson Algren — ""The Man with the Golden Arm"" 1951: William Faulkner — ""Collected Stories of William Faulkner"" 1952: James Jones — ""From Here to Eternity"" 1953: Ralph Ellison — ""Invisible Man"" 1954: Saul Bellow — ""The Adventures of Augie March"" 1955: William Faulkner — ""A Fable"" 1956: John O'Hara — ""Ten North Frederick"" 1957: Wright Morris — ""The Field of Vision"" 1958: John Cheever — ""The Wapshot"
"described the writing as ""of the first distinction"", and in the 1940s he again wrote of ""Big Two-Hearted River"", ""along with the mottled trout ... the boy from the American Middle West fishes up a nice little masterpiece."" When the story was published in the United States, critics asserted Hemingway had reinvigorated the short story by his use of declarative sentences and his crisp style. In 1952, reviewing ""The Old Man and the Sea""—for which Hemingway would win the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature—""The New York Times"" said of ""Big Two-Hearted River"" that it was one of"
", ""The Old Man and the Sea"" is Hemingway's final full-length work published during his lifetime. The book, dedicated to ""Charlie Scribner"" and to Hemingway's literary editor ""Max Perkins"", was featured in ""Life"" magazine on September 1, 1952, and five million copies of the magazine were sold in two days. ""The Old Man and the Sea"" became a Book of the Month Club selection, and made Hemingway a celebrity. Published in book form on September 1, 1952, the first edition print run was 50,000 copies. The illustrated edition featured black and white pictures by Charles Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. In"
"at the critical reception of ""Across the River and Into the Trees"", he wrote the draft of ""The Old Man and the Sea"" in eight weeks, saying that it was ""the best I can write ever for all of my life"". ""The Old Man and the Sea"" became a book-of-the-month selection, made Hemingway an international celebrity, and won the Pulitzer Prize in May 1952, a month before he left for his second trip to Africa. In 1954, while in Africa, Hemingway was almost fatally injured in two successive plane crashes. He chartered a sightseeing flight over the Belgian Congo as"
"but nobody, could write about storms at sea like Conrad"". One of Wouk's own marine novels, ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1952), won the Pulitzer Prize. Herman Melville's 1851 novel ""Moby-Dick"" was described by the poet John Masefield as speaking ""the whole secret of the sea"". A large seabird, the albatross, played a central part in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's influential 1798 poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"", which in turn gave rise to the usage of albatross as metaphor for a burden. In his 1902 poem ""The Sea and the Hills"", Rudyard Kipling expresses the urge for the sea, and uses"
"Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel ""Invisible Man"", which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote ""Shadow and Act"" (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and ""Going to the Territory"" (1986). For ""The New York Times"", the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him ""among the gods of America's literary Parnassus."" A posthumous novel, ""Juneteenth"", was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death. Ralph"
"Old Man and the Sea"" (1952), Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida (in the 1930s) and Cuba (in the 1940s and 1950s). In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, in mid-1961, he shot himself in the head. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a physician, and his"
"book, ""Invisible Man."" Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel ""Invisible Man"", which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote ""Shadow and Act"" (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and ""Going to the Territory"" (1986). For ""The New York Times"", the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him ""among the gods of America's literary Parnassus."" A posthumous novel, ""Juneteenth"", was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon"
"in length and in weight. They are popular sporting fish in tropical areas. The marlins are perciform fish, most closely related to the swordfish and Scombridae. In the Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novel ""The Old Man and the Sea"", the central character of the work is an aged Cuban fisherman who, after 84 days without success on the water, heads out to sea to break his run of bad luck. On the 85th day, Santiago, the old fisherman, hooks a resolute marlin; what follows is a great struggle between man, sea creature, and the elements. Frederick Forsyth's story"
"Old Man and the Sea"", the magazine contracted with the author for a 4,000-word piece on bullfighting. Hemingway sent the editors a 10,000-word article, following his last visit to Spain in 1959 to cover a series of contests between two top matadors. The article was republished in 1985 as the novella, ""The Dangerous Summer"". In February 1953, just a few weeks after leaving office, President Harry S. Truman announced that ""Life"" magazine would handle all rights to his memoirs. Truman said it was his belief that by 1954 he would be able to speak more fully on subjects pertaining to"
"Conrad Richter Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel ""The Town"" (1950), the last story of his trilogy ""The Awakening Land"" about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His novel ""The Waters of Kronos"" won the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction. Two collections of short stories were published posthumously during the 20th century, and several of his novels have been reissued during the 21st century by academic presses. Conrad Michael Richter"
"and Robert P. T. Coffin were born in Maine. Poets Stanley Kunitz and Elizabeth Bishop were both born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Oliver La Farge, a New Englander of French and Narragansett descent, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, the predecessor to the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1930 for his book Laughing Boy. John P. Marquand grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Novelist Edwin O'Connor, who was also known as a radio personality and journalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Edge of Sadness."
"to the human person. The growing devotion to the Virgin is a visible testimony of her presence in the soul of the Cuban people …. I will have occasion to go to El Cobre, as a son and pilgrim."" In 1954, American author Ernest Hemingway donated his Nobel Prize in Literature medal for The Old Man and the Sea to the people of Cuba at the shrine of Caridad del Cobre in Cuba. The medal was stolen in 1986, but was recovered days later upon the threat of Raul Castro that it be returned or the thieves suffer the consequences."
"A. B. Guthrie Jr. Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories. His novel ""The Way West"" won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for ""Shane"" (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award. Guthrie was born in 1901 in Bedford, Indiana. When he was six months old he relocated with his parents to Montana, where his father became the first principal of the Teton County Free High School in Choteau. His father was a graduate of Indiana University, his mother"
"of French and Narragansett descent, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, the predecessor to the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1930 for his book ""Laughing Boy"". John P. Marquand grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Novelist Edwin O'Connor, who was also known as a radio personality and journalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel ""The Edge of Sadness"". Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever, a novelist and short story writer, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and set most of his fiction in old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around there. E. Annie Proulx was"
"The Man Who Ploughed the Sea ""The Man Who Ploughed the Sea"" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story within a story is narrated by Harry Purvis, who recalls a holiday spent submarining off of the Florida Keys. While there, he happens to witness a meeting between two wealthy and talented scientists, one of whom has designed a method to extract trace elements from seawater. He trades his secret to the other in exchange for the other's fancy yacht, but it turns out that the process is not yet"
"1952, which starred Gary Cooper (Academy Award, Best Actor) and Grace Kelly. The adapted screenplay by Carl Foreman was nominated for an Academy Award. His sister Julia Cunningham was an author of children's literature. John W. Cunningham John Marshall Cunningham (July 28, 1915 – June 4, 2002) was an American author who wrote a number of Western novels and stories as ""John W. Cunningham"" or ""John M. Cunningham."" During the Second World War, he served in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific. While living in Santa Barbara, California, he became a published novelist. He moved to Ashland, Oregon in"
"Ocean Sea (novel) Ocean Sea () is a 1993 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. Its narrative revolves around the lives of a group of people gathered at a remote seaside hotel. The novel won the Viareggio Prize. Richard Bernstein reviewed the book for ""The New York Times"", and wrote: """"Ocean Sea"" unfolds in its poetically elliptical way. Mr. Baricco is a literary cubist, a stylist who looks simultaneously at the several sides of things. He switches from one rhetorical mode to another, from a kind of symbolist poetry to grand adventure narrative to picaresque comedy."" Bernstein continued: ""This"
"Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal ""The Southern Review"" with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel ""All the King's Men"" (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Warren was born"
"jury for the 1955 Pulitzer Prize, but John Hohenberg convinced the Pulitzer board that William Faulkner was long overdue for the award, despite his submitted novel ""A Fable"" being a lesser work of his, and the board overrode the jury's selection, much to the disgust of its members. ""The Last Hunt"" was made into a 1957 movie. Milton Lott Milton Lott (1916 – 1996) was an author of western novels. He grew up in the Snake River Valley, in Idaho and attended University of California, Berkeley. While there he started writing his first published novel, ""The Last Hunt"". He worked"
"and literary circles; Ernest Hemingway immortalized him in his novel ""The Old Man and the Sea."" In a conversation between an aging Cuban fisherman and his young apprentice discussing the unfolding 1950 big-league season, the older man says: ""In the other league, between Brooklyn and Philadelphia, I must take Brooklyn. But then I think of Dick Sisler and those great drives in the old park. There was nothing ever like them. He hits the longest ball I have ever seen."" His father, George Sr., was a scout for Brooklyn in 1950. When asked after the pennant-winning game how he felt"
"the term had previously been used by the British magazine ""Punch"" in 1925. Margaret Widdemer Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection ""The Old Road to Paradise"", shared with Carl Sandburg for ""Cornhuskers"". Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where her father, Howard T. Widdemer, was a minister of the First Congregational Church. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909. She first came"
"Holling C. Holling Holling Clancy Holling (born Holling Allison Clancy, August 2, 1900 – September 7, 1973) was an American author and illustrator, best known for the book ""Paddle-to-the-Sea"", which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. ""Paddle to the Sea"" won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film ""Paddle to the Sea"", based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Jackson County, Michigan, Holling graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. A number of his early works were first published by P. F."
"Joyce creates parallels with Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. William Faulkner's ""The Sound and the Fury"" (1929) is another significant modernist novel, that uses the stream of consciousness technique. Novelists who are not considered modernists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932) whose works include a sequence of novels, collectively called ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); and E.M. Forster's (1879–1970), though Forster's work is ""frequently regarded as containing both modernist and Victorian"
"Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, ""The Graveyard Book"" (2008). In 2013, ""The Ocean at the End of"
"on the city's beachfront. Novels Contains important books and articles about Mailer and his works, many of which are cited in this article. See Works above for a list of Mailer's first editions and Mailer's individual works for reviews. Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award."
"Edwin O'Connor Edwin O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel ""The Edge of Sadness"" (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests. O'Connor was born to a medical doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, but was raised in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He was an alumnus of La Salle Academy and the University of Notre Dame. After graduation, he served in the United States Coast Guard during"
"hunt or an undersea panorama. Holling C. Holling Holling Clancy Holling (born Holling Allison Clancy, August 2, 1900 – September 7, 1973) was an American author and illustrator, best known for the book ""Paddle-to-the-Sea"", which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. ""Paddle to the Sea"" won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film ""Paddle to the Sea"", based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Jackson County, Michigan, Holling graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. A number of his early works were"
"The Sea (novel) The Sea (2005) is the fifteenth book (thirteenth novel) by Irish writer John Banville. It won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those he loved as a child and as an adult. The novel is written as a reflective journal; the setting always in flux, wholly dependent upon the topic or theme Max feels inclined to write about. Despite the constant fluctuations, Max returns to three settings: his childhood memories of the Graces—a wealthy middle-class family living in"
"updated to include art in the 1950s. He later wrote two more books, both of which were about artists. The first, ""Samuel F. B. Morse and American Democratic Art"", focused on Morse's early career as a painter. The second, written after his retirement, was ""Daumier, Man of His Time"", which related the works of Honoré Daumier to the art movements of his time. Oliver Waterman Larkin Oliver Waterman Larkin (August 17, 1896, Medford, Massachusetts – December 17, 1970) was an American art historian and educator. He won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book ""Art and Life in"